Phan Thành Sang

Phan Thành Sang was a South Vietnamese village chief in Tay Ninh Province during the Vietnam War. On 1 January 1968, a US Army platoon under Lieutenant Mark Wolfe entered his village while searching for Viet Cong fighters in the area, and Private Gator Lerner interrogated Sang in Vietnamese about his scars and the weapons cache in the village. Sang said that he had been wounded in a US bombing run and that the Viet Cong forced him to store weapons in the village. When his wife Lý Thảo Nhi ran to him and shouted at the US Soldiers, Sergeant Bob Barnes shot his wife dead and threatened to kill his daughter, but Sergeant Elias Gordon angrily attacked Barnes, preventing him from killing the daughter. Lieutenant Wolfe then ordered his men to burn the village and round up suspected Viet Cong, and Sang was taken into US captivity.